Pediatric Emergency Medicine Boot Camp Faculty
Meet our qualified and dedicated faculty below!
Dynamic speakers! This is a course for every ED physician, resident, student, who might encounter pediatrics.
Joseph P. Funk, MD
GHAZALA SHARIEFF, MD, FACEP, FAAEM – COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
Ghazala Sharieff is the Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Palomar-Pomerado Health System. She holds a Clinical Professor appointment at the University of California, San Diego. She is a diplomate of both the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
LAWRENCE SATKOWIAK, MD, FAAP – COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
Lawrence Satkowiak is the Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Children's Hospital Central California and the Director of Pediatrics for Emergency Medicine Physicians. He has over 20 years of clinical practice in pediatric emergency medicine. He has lectured nationally at ACEP and at other PEM conferences.
KEVIN KLAUER, DO, EJD, FACEPKevin Klauer is Director of the Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) and the Chief Medical Officer for Emergency Medicine Physicians, Ltd., based in Canton, Ohio. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Physicians Specialty Limited Risk Retention Group. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Klauer serves as Editor-in-Chief for Emergency Physicians Monthly publication and is the Co-Author of two risk management books: Emergency Medicine Bouncebacks: Medical and Legal and Risk Management and the Emergency Department: Executive Leadership for Protecting Patients and Hospitals. Dr. Klauer also serves as ACEP Council Vice Speaker.
AL SACCHETTI, MD, FACEP
Al Sacchetti is the Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, NJ and Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He is a full time practicing emergency physician as well as a researcher and educator and has authored over 100 journal publications, text book chapters and monographs.
MAUREEN MCCOLLOUGH, MD, FACEP
Maureen McCollough is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Director, Division of Pediatric Emergency Department, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County–USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
RICHARD LEVITAN, MD
Richard Levitan is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. He is an emergency physician, researcher, inventor of the Airway Cam direct laryngoscopy video system and the Levitan FPS optical stylet, and is an internationally recognized expert in the area of emergency airway management. Dr. Levitan has been published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals in the field of emergency medicine and related specialties, and has given over 350 invited lectures on airway management around the country and the world.
All presenters kept it interesting if not entertaining. I came for expertise and I got it!
David Cameron, DO
Disclosure of Faculty Financial Interests or Relationships:
It is the policy of the Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) to insure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored educational activities, and that all contributors present information in an objective, unbiased manner without endorsement or criticism of specific products or services and that the relationships that contributors disclose will not influence their contributions. In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias. All individuals in a position to control the content of this CME activity have indicated that he/she has no relevant financial relationships, which, in the context of this CME activity, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest. Complete disclosure of relevant (or no) financial relationships will be made to learners prior to the beginning of the CME activity. All faculty pictured may not be at all scheduled course dates.
